"this real-life drama of good and evil unfolds with all the narrative tension of a fictional thriller." - Barnes and Nobles
"It is excellent nonfiction, chronicling the hurly-burly planning and construction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (which did, as the title suggests, include building what amounted to an entire city) and a cruelly calculating sociopath who used the event's and crowds to serve his homicidal compulsion." Publisher's Weekly
"the schematic observation that late-nineteenth-century urban despair was twinned with civic optimism and thereby illustrates the timeless and ineluctable struggle between good and evil." -Collin Morris
About the Book
Title: The Devil in the White City Author: Eric Larson Situation:Archeticts are creating the scene and feel of the World's Fair while a serial killer is using the fair as a plot to bring women into Chicago so he can murder them. Setting: Chicago during the World's Fair in 1893 Publication Date: Feburary 10, 2004
Born: January 3, 1954 Work: Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Bucks County Courier Times Major Works: Issac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, Hurricane of 1900 Graduated From: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Daniel Hudson Burnham: Works with John Root to design and build the World's Fair, more of a business man. John Root: Daniel Burnham's partner, he is more of a architect Fredrick Law Omsted: Hired by Burnham and Root to help them design and build the fair H.H. Holmes: Serial Killer and doctor that comes to Chicage to commit crimes during the fair. Frank Geyer: Philadelphia detective that catches Holmes. He later finds out about Holmes' horrifying past.
Conflict:
In this novel there are two main conflicts, one is the Architecture firm working on the World's Fair that was a critical part of America's history. The other is the serial killer that is arrested for insurance fraud but is finnally caught for his horrible past.
Criticisim
"It is excellent nonfiction, chronicling the hurly-burly planning and construction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (which did, as the title suggests, include building what amounted to an entire city) and a cruelly calculating sociopath who used the event's and crowds to serve his homicidal compulsion." Publisher's Weekly
"the schematic observation that late-nineteenth-century urban despair was twinned with civic optimism and thereby illustrates the timeless and ineluctable struggle between good and evil."
-Collin Morris
About the Book
Title: The Devil in the White CityAuthor: Eric Larson
Situation:Archeticts are creating the scene and feel of the World's Fair while a serial killer is using the fair as a plot to bring women into Chicago so he can murder them.
Setting: Chicago during the World's Fair in 1893
Publication Date: Feburary 10, 2004
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About The Author
Born: January 3, 1954Work: Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, Bucks County Courier Times
Major Works: Issac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, Hurricane of 1900
Graduated From: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
More About the Author
Characters and Conflict:
Daniel Hudson Burnham: Works with John Root to design and build the World's Fair, more of a business man.John Root: Daniel Burnham's partner, he is more of a architect
Fredrick Law Omsted: Hired by Burnham and Root to help them design and build the fair
H.H. Holmes: Serial Killer and doctor that comes to Chicage to commit crimes during the fair.
Frank Geyer: Philadelphia detective that catches Holmes. He later finds out about Holmes' horrifying past.
Conflict:
In this novel there are two main conflicts, one is the Architecture firm working on the World's Fair that was a critical part of America's history. The other is the serial killer that is arrested for insurance fraud but is finnally caught for his horrible past.